Yellow Earth 1984
黄土地
A communist soldier is sent to a remote region of China in order to collect folk songs. Staying with a peasant family (a widower with two small children), he discovers a community whose way of life is completely alien to him, but he gradually wins their trust.
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Vocabulary
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| 家里 家裡 | home | |
| 差 差 | difference; discrepancy; (math.) difference (amount remaining after a subtraction); (literary) a little; somewhat; slightly | |
| 床 床 | bed; couch; classifier for beds | |
| 睡觉 睡覺 | to go to bed; to sleep | |
| 热 熱 | to warm up; to heat up; hot (of weather); heat; fervent | |
| 去年 去年 | last year | |
| 白 白 | white; snowy; pure; bright; empty; blank; plain; clear; to make clear; in vain; gratuitous; free of charge; reactionary; anti-communist; funeral; to stare coldly; to write wrong character; to state; to explain; vernacular; spoken lines in opera | |
| 字 字 | letter; symbol; character; word; courtesy or style name traditionally given to males aged 20 in dynastic China | |
| 说话 說話 | to speak; to say; to talk; to gossip; to tell stories; talk; word | |
| 女儿 女兒 | daughter | |
| 看见 看見 | to see; to catch sight of | |
| 十 十 | ten; 10 | |
| 今年 今年 | this year | |
| 唱 唱 | to sing; to call loudly; to chant | |
| 飞 飛 | to fly | |
| 哪里 哪裏 | where?; somewhere; anywhere; wherever; nowhere (negative answer to question); humble expression denying compliment; also written 哪里 | |
| 元 元 | currency unit (esp. Chinese yuan); first; original; primary; fundamental; constituent; part; era (of a reign); meta- (prefix); (math.) argument; variable; (Tw) (geology) eon | |
| 中国 中國 | China | |
| 歌 歌 | song; to sing | |
| 记得 記得 | to remember | |
| 二 二 | two; 2; (Beijing dialect) stupid | |
| 远 遠 | far; distant; remote; (intensifier in a comparison) by far; much (lower etc) | |
| 子 子 | son; child; seed; egg; small thing; 1st earthly branch: 11 p.m.-1 a.m., midnight, 11th solar month (7th December to 5th January), year of the Rat; Viscount, fourth of five orders of nobility 位; ancient Chinese compass point: 0° (north); subsidiary; subordinate; sub- | |
| 动 動 | (of sth) to move; to set in movement; to displace; to touch; to make use of; to stir (emotions); to alter; abbr. for 动词, verb | |
| 男 男 | male; Baron, lowest of five orders of nobility 位 | |
| 五 五 | five; 5 | |
| 晚 晚 | evening; night; late | |
| 昨天 昨天 | yesterday | |
| 回家 回家 | to return home | |
| 跑 跑 | (of an animal) to paw (the ground) | |
| 难 難 | difficult (to...); problem; difficulty; difficult; not good | |
| 谢谢 謝謝 | to thank; thanks; thank you | |
| 晚上 晚上 | evening; night; in the evening | |
| 四 四 | four; 4 | |
| 回来 回來 | to return; to come back | |
| 明天 明天 | tomorrow | |
| 认识 認識 | to know; to recognize; to be familiar with; to get acquainted with sb; knowledge; understanding; awareness; cognition | |
| 们 們 | plural marker for pronouns, and nouns referring to individuals | |
| 早 早 | early; morning; Good morning!; long ago; prematurely | |
| 坐 坐 | surname Zuo | |
| 穿 穿 | to wear; to put on; to dress; to bore through; to pierce; to perforate; to penetrate; to pass through; to thread | |
| 喝 喝 | to shout | |
| 男人 男人 | a man; a male; men | |
| 路 路 | road; journey; route; line (bus etc); sort; kind | |
| 站 站 | station; to stand; to halt; to stop; branch of a company or organization; website | |
| 帮 幫 | to help; to assist; to support; for sb (i.e. as a help); hired (as worker); side (of pail, boat etc); outer layer; upper (of a shoe); group; gang; clique; party; secret society | |
| 送 送 | to send; to deliver; to transmit; to give (as a present); to see (sb) off; to accompany; to go along with | |
| 女 女 | female; woman; daughter | |
| 您 您 | you (courteous, as opposed to informal 你) | |
| 写 寫 | to write |